Case study · Education & Training

Access Agriculture

A localised, low-bandwidth video platform that helps farmers across the Global South learn organic and agroecology practices.

Client
Confidential (under NDA)
Industry
Agriculture / non-profit
Engagement
Mobile app
Timeline
Launched 2021
Access Agriculture
Overview

Access Agriculture is a mobile app built in partnership with a non-profit to bring agricultural training videos to farmers around the world in their own languages. It helps farmers across the Southern region of the world transition to organic and agroecology practices, and makes it easy to share videos with friends and community while keeping up with the latest tutorial updates. We designed and built it to work in places where connectivity and devices cannot be taken for granted.

Local languages
Training in farmers' own tongue
Bluetooth sharing
Works on even basic phones
14 categories
Searchable video library
Audio and video
Downloadable for offline use
The challenge

Reaching farmers beyond reliable connectivity

The farmers this app serves often have basic phones, limited data and little material in their own language. Distributing high-quality training had to work around patchy connectivity and a huge spread of devices and dialects.

Our approach

Research first, then build

We designed around the realities of rural distribution rather than ideal conditions: content that downloads for offline use, search that works across topic, keyword and language, and Bluetooth sharing so videos can spread phone to phone. A Swift, Java and Python stack supports both platforms and the underlying video pipeline.

Inside the product

What we shipped

A complete localised learning app, from a pixel-perfect first impression through search, sharing and offline viewing.

01

Local-language video library

A growing library of finely scripted training videos available in farmers' own languages, making organic and agroecology practices easy to understand and adopt.

02

Offline-first downloads

Fourteen categories of audio and video that download for offline use, so learning works in places where connectivity cannot be taken for granted.

03

Phone-to-phone Bluetooth sharing

Integrated Bluetooth sharing that lets farmers spread videos device to device, so training reaches communities and plays even on basic phones.

04

Multilingual search

Search across topic, keyword and language so farmers can find the right training quickly, whatever their dialect or device.

05

Personal learning dashboard

A simple registration and dashboard that brings searching, sharing and uploading together, giving each farmer one clear place to learn and contribute.

Results

Training that travels phone to phone

Access Agriculture puts practical farming knowledge in farmers' hands in their own languages, even where connectivity and modern devices are scarce. Offline downloads and Bluetooth sharing let training videos spread through communities, supporting the shift to organic and agroecology practices across the Southern region of the world.

Built with

The stack behind it

SwiftJavaPython
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